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Tag: SARDay

SAR Day 2

By Michael Coyle Posted on 27/02/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day No Comments Tagged with SAR, SARDay

Field training at the secret Coquitlam SAR Crag on Burke Mountain. Technical travel skills; ascending, descending, convert from ascend to descend, and traversing wet slippery steep terrain. Good thing the weather is cooperating by providing the moisture. The magic number …

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SAR Day 1: operational, administrative and training

By Michael Coyle Posted on 23/02/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day No Comments Tagged with SAR, SARDay, training
SAR Day 1: operational, administrative and training
SAR Member using a map

Today had operational, administrative and training components of SAR. Josh Andrew Koenig, an actor who starred in the TV Series Growing Pains, is missing in Vancouver. He is not only a high profile missing person, he is the son of a …

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SAR Day 0

By Michael Coyle Posted on 22/02/2010 Posted in Blog Entry, SAR Day 1 Comment Tagged with SAR, SARDay

My Facebook friend Lee uses the application Snowbook to track the number of days he goes skiing in a year. This has the effect of making me extremely jealous because he racks up an astounding number of days (60 this season …

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